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. 2021 Nov 10;10(11):3112. doi: 10.3390/cells10113112

Table 1.

List of clinically relevant phenotypic cells derived from hPSCs by differentiation protocols and their purity at the end of the differentiation protocols.

Organ System Cell Type Purity Achieved Associated Pathologies References
Brain
  1. NPC/astrocytes

N/A Stroke, Alzheimer’s SCI [16,17,18]
  • b.

    Oligodendrocytes Progenitor cell

80–90% multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury [18,19]
  • c.

    Microglia

>97.2% neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation, traumatic brain injury [19,20,21]
Lungs
  1. alveolar type II cells

N/A Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, SARS-CoV-2 [22,23]
  • b.

    multiciliated airway epithelial cell

N/A Asthma, PCD [24]
  • c.

    endothelial cells

75% familial pulmonary arterial hypertension [25]
Heart
  1. cardiomyocytes

>99%
78%
LEOPARD syndrome
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
[26]
[27]
  • b.

    cardiac endothelial cells

NA congenital valve abnormalities [28]
Liver
  1. End-stage hepatocytes

nearly 100% non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and fatty liver disease [29]
  • b.

    multicellular liver organoid

N/A primary liver cancer, acute liver failure [30]
  • c.

    liver buds

N/A acute liver failure [31]
Pancreas
  1. insulin-secreting beta-cell

N/A diabetes, [32,33,34]
Gut
  1. intestinal epithelium

  2. enterocytes/hepatocytes

inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), [35,36]
Kidney
  1. Renal progenitor cells

63.8 ± 3.3% Kidney disease, acute kidney injury (AKI) [37]
  • b.

    IM cell (intermediate mesoderm cells)

N/A chronic kidney disease (CKD), end-stage renal disease (ESRD) [38,39]
  • c.

    metanephric and mesonephric NPs, ureteric buds

N/A Kidney disease [40]
Eye
  1. retinal ganglion cell-like neuron

  2. retinal pigment epithelium cell

  3. corneal endothelium cell

N/A Retinopathy,
Age-related Macular—degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, corneal edema
[41,42,43]